Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

I think it really indicates how important it is that people pay attention to the lifeboat drill. This would indicate that if nothing else you should pay a little attention to what's going on so that if a situation did occur that you would have some idea of what to do.